This is the final session from the swimming pool, with the 10k swim marathons scheduled for 20 and 21 August in the Beijing rowing basin.
Sun 17 August 2008 10:00 Morning Session
- Women's 50m Freestyle Final
GOLD: 24.06 OR Britta Steffen, GER
SILVER: 24.07 Dara Torres. USA
BRONZE: 24.17 Cate Campbell, AUS
6. 24.63 Kara-Lynn Joyce, USA
- Men's 1500m Freestyle Final
GOLD: 14:40.84 Oussama Mellouli, TUN
SILVER: 14:41.53 Grant Hackett, AUS
BRONZE: 14:42.69 Ryan Cochrane, CAN
5. 14:48.16 Larsen Jensen, USA
- Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final
GOLD: 3:52.69 WR AUS (Seebohm 59.33, Jones 1:04.58, Schipper 56.25, Trickett 52.53)
SILVER: 3:53.30 USA (Coughlin 58.94, Soni 1:05.95, Magnuson 56.14, Torres 52.27)
BRONZE: 3:56.11 CHN (Zhao 59.56, Sun 1:06.75, Zhou 57.40, Pang 52.40)
- Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final
GOLD: 3:29.34 WR USA (Piersol 53.16, Hansen 59.27, Phelps 50.15, Lezak 46.76)
SILVER: 3:30.04 AUS (Stoeckel 53.80, Rickard 58.56, Lauterstein 51.03, Sullivan 46.65)
BRONZE: 3:31.18 JPN (Miyashita 53.87, Kitajima 58.07, Fujii 50.89, Sato 48.35)
With the relay win by the USA, Michael Phelps won his 8th gold medal, the most ever in a single games; Phelps also has 16 life-time medals, the most of any Olympic swimmer. Dara Torres moved up to a tie for second of all US swimmers with 12 life-time Olympic medals (tied with swimmer Jenny Thompson). Natalie Coughlin is not far behind with 11.USA Swimming Report: USA Swimming Ends 2008 Olympic Competition At Water Cube With 31 Swimming Medals
WR = World Record
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